Viewing Type spacing and kerning
Type spacing and kerning
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User: David P. 10 years ago
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I've been playing a bit with EverWeb trying to understand what is possible with it before jumping in. I see that I can overlap photos and ghost them back with opacity sliders just as I loved being able to do in iWeb. I can also add shadows and change the size and opacity of those shadows. Bravo. Now, can I kern type? I don't see that possibility but concede I might just be missing the magic pathway. Is it possible and if not, is this an ability that you'll be adding in an upcoming iteration? I often need to space out the letters in a word or words to create bold, interesting headlines for web pages and slide presentations, and/or to change the perceived visual spacing between, say, the letters A and V in the name DAVID. I can do this easily for slides in Keynote and even achieve it easily in a playful little typographic iPhone app, OVER. I'd love to be able to change the spacing between letters in EverWeb like I always could in iWeb. What say you? Already possible? Soon? |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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Kerning is used in the print industry to adjust the space between individual letters. True kerning doesn't exist in web design. CSS uses letter spacing which is not the same thing. Letter spacing applied using CSS to a heading or a paragraph will space out the letters A and V in your example but it will also space out all the others and create readability problems for those with reading difficulties. iWeb has quite a few features that are not appropriate to web design and Keynote is basically a DTP app. A few of the features in iWeb were borrowed from the iWork apps and they ended up in iWeb due to oversight. An example of this would be justified text which is never used in web design. Most amateur web designers (and a lot of so called professional ones) don't seem to understand the concept of readability. I must admit that I didn't until a friend who suffers from dyslexia put me straight! ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Jonkeba 10 years ago
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| Though it doesn't sound like a viable option for EW (and I know zilch about Code), I, too, miss kerning. I found it helpful in iWeb when there was a big gap at the end of a sentence to get rid of the awkward gap. I could tighten and loosen up sentences (when hyphenation didn't work) and have the paragraph not look so extremely ragged on the right edge. I don't need to justify paragraphs, though—seems forced and bookish. There probably are great workarounds—what I do now is substitute longer and shorter words. | |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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The "ragged edge" increases readability which is the primary consideration.
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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